title: Large thigh and buttock muscle metastases as the initial manifestation of follicular thyroid cancer.
abstract: Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common thyroid malignancy after papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). It has a greater tendency than PTC to metastasize to distant organs such as the lung and bone. FTC metastasis to skeletal muscle is extremely rare. Here, we report a 65-year-old woman with large thigh and buttock muscle metastases as the first manifestation of FTC.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Li
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Hong-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Zhong-Ling
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Quan-Yong
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D002081:Buttocks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013848:Thigh